Posts Tagged ‘Sachin Tendulkar’

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is now the highest run accumulator in the history of Test cricket. The Little Master broke Brian Charles Lara’s record of 11,953 runs in the second Test against Australia at Mohali on Friday when he went past the 15-run mark in the first innings.

While Tendulkar took 152 matches and 247 innings to reach the landmark, Lara accumulated the runs in 131 matches and 232 innings.

Tendulkar already holds the world record of most Test centuries with 39 tons under his belt. He has also 42 One-Day Internationals centuries for a total of 81 international hundreds, which again is a world record.

He also hold the record scoring maximum ODIs runs and is the only batsman to have accumulated more than 15,000 runs in the 50-over format.

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two…hi compactness, technique, stroke production… it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.– Sir Don BradmanIndia‘s fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.– Sunil GavaskarHe has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.– Richie Benaud

He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry Richards.– Eddie BarlowHe is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.– Greg ChappellI’ll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don’t think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.– Shane Warne

Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don’t know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.– BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar

If I’ve to bowl to Sachin, I’ll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.– Dennis Lillee

The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him– Mark Waugh

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it’s a toothpick.– Brett Lee, on Sachin Tendulkar’s batting, 1999

“Sachin is cricket’s God”

– Barry Richards.

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“He is 99.5 per cent perfect. I’d pay to see him”

– Viv Richards.

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“I have seen God. He bats at number 4 for India”

– Mathew Hayden

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“There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don”

– Steve Waugh.

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“I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara”

– Glenn McGrath.

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“You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon”

– Steve Waugh.

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“Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime, and I am privileged he played in my time”

– Wasim Akram

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“Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I’m a mere mortal”

– Brian Lara

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“Don’t bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours”

– Michael Kasprowicz.

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“It’s scary, where the hell do we bowl to him”

– Allan Border.

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“Yeah mate, but that’s with all great players”

– Ian Chappell.

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“He’s better than Ben Hur”

– Paul Wilson.

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“There’s no doubt about it. He is the best”

– Tony Grieg.

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“Technically, you can’t fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow – nothing is a problem”

– Geoffrey Boycott.

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“Destined to be a great”

– Barry Richards.

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“You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer”

– Shane Warne

Best One

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord Is watching.-Placard at the SCG as Sachin was making his century,2008 January